Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-08-14

Friday. Finally, IN complete despair, he
sent q telegram;
Mss Symmetry When, when's whim. Beeswax
Junction. Connecticut:
Do You mean hosiery and so forthf II.
He awaited the answer feverishly. IL
came at 5 p. M;
Mr. Doodovey yelum, Pelionosss Flats, New
York:
Yes, everything. =
Everything went. When Mr.. Vellum
descended from the train Mt Beeswax
Junction late in the following afternoon
he wore silk underwear, a neat silk dress
shirt. a silk necktie, silk stockings, silk
mixed diagonal suit, silk hat, silky mus
tache, and manners that were soft and
silken in the extreme.
The odd gentleman, though eccentric,
was none .he less keen on that account.
He Desired symmetry TO have a husband
who could love her deeply, ane in conse-
auenee, cherish and tenderly care for her.
He had no se~ntiments-the old electrician.
He looked upon vital force as merely a
form Of electrical force. He regarded the
human body simply as a complex ma
chine, and all its acts, Of thought and SEN
/ llllltlI, rs VIII Us hluNthlaA AlbNiths 10
purely electrical phenomena. He believed
that any mans emotional capacity was
directly proportioned to his possession OF
latent nerve force. Consequently he calm
ly and resolutely had determined to let
Mr.. Vellum woo Symmetry TO the fun OF
his wishes, but he proposed TO know ex-
actly how much he actually loved her by
keeping track of the process with his gal
vanometer.
His plan was simply this: Mr.. yellum,
while making love, should be insulated and
should be the connecting link between two
positive and negative wires, which wires
should run from the arena Of loves young
dream. the beautiful twilight stiffness of
the garden, into the matter Of fact seclu-
sion and the unsentimental surroundings
of Mr.. When's library. This was why he
had insisted on silk clothing, because he
wanted TO give Mr.. vellum every show,
and silk was the best conductor in the
list Of fabrics. Consequently, having CIV
en- his consent, he fitted uptwo stationary
stuffed cloth chairs beneath a spreading
elm. Just where a colonnade Of beautiful
trees led away to the moonlit surface OF a
sleeping silver lake. II was a beautiful
place for a mans heart. beating with all
the high hopes and pure and ennobling
ambitions Of a manly love, TO expand it.
self, Ii was also O first class locality TO
bring out all the sympathetic electricity
there was in him. thought the old gen.
tleman as he surveyed his work and
chuckled. The chairs were similar and
were placed side by side quite close to-
gether. The only difference between
them was that Mr.. Vellum's had two
narrow strips Of brass running down the
back and across the seat Of the chair out
side of the wooden upholstery. From
these slips two fine No. IL copper wires
led down the chair legs, up the trunk OF
the elm, along a branch, across the lawn
TO the portico, around the corner OF the
house, through the library window and
connected with the positive and negative
poles of Mr.. When's galvanometer. The
chairs stood on the platform, which APP
peared TO be of rough wood, but was really
a large plate Of rough glass. Mr.. Vellum,
when he obeyed the promptings of his
deep affection, would be absolutely insu-
lated with the exception Of the brass
strips which he would infallibly touch
whichever way he sat and thereby COM
plete the circuit. Every ohm of vital cleo
tricity set free by the psyche physiological
reactions Of his developing sentimental
perturbation would therefore directly seek
an equilibrium in the wires. II he pre-
tended to love Symmetry and the galyan-
ometer reading was against him, the old
man proposed TO set the dog on him with
out delay.
II. l.l-a, ca,,r1o,. aranfny G,.rn not rx-
was waiting, in the tender trying conflict
' Of a young girls heart, for her lovers
step. She knew something Of the plan.
She was p~erforee a party to it. She did
aot dare 10 tell Mr.. Vellum for fear her
father had some unearthly machine by
which he would catch her at il. Dressed
in snowy null, with the velvet blush Of
the unfolding rose upon her cheek, sh,
was as gentle, as perfect, and as fair a,
some women are who make the biblical
angel a rational supposition. Dressed
' half an hour too early she came down
stairs and stole softly and alone into the
dark library where the galvanometer,
with its cold polished face of convex glass,
its shining nickel rim, its circular scale,
with the fine degree marking, and its
thin, almost invisible needle, lay silent
upon her fathers desk. Who can tell
what loving hopes and tender fears were
hers as she gazed timidly upon that deli
cate thing Of metal and Of glass upon
which all her life happiness depended!
Who can tell the unexpressed longing
that came to her as she wished il were
only a pug dog or a policeman or any
thing that, by a woman's diplomacy, she
could win over 10 her cause. But no! II
was cold and quiet and beyond her. But
she leaned over impulsively and kissed IL;
kissed IL warmly and eagerly upon its
face rs all the love in her heart outshone.
The needle trembled slightly in gallant
recognition. That was all.
Mr.. Vellum arrived duly and was ush-
cred in by symmetry to her father. Tie
old man eyed him sharply while they ex-
changed a few commonplace, and Nellum
fondly imagined that the searching glance
was probing deep into his moral charac-
ter, but IL wasn't. IL wa directed ell
tiiely at his underclothes. II was a little
awkward to ask n stranger about his un-
derwear, particularly when he had not
been five minutes in the house. Notwith,
standing this, however, the old mar was
several IlInts On 'ne NeIke vi u, ana sym
metry was in mortal terror. She was SO
nervous that she could neither talk nor
sit still. She rose 90 her feet.
"Mr. Nellum. w1uldn't-wouldn't you
like 20 take a walk in the galdenT' she
asked %nervously. at is beautiful to see
the moon rising over the galvanometer."
"The whichS' asked Mr.. Vellum,
aghast.
The lake, the lake, / mean" she said
hastily, blushing holly In her trembling
misery.
IL should he delighted, I am sure, " said
vellum. He looked askance at her
father